Characters
- Hi and Lois Flagston: Hi (short for Hiram) and Lois are typical middle-class American suburbanites. Lois is a realtor. They have four children.
- Chip: A stereotypically slovenly teenaged boy (eight years old at the time the strip started).
- Dot and Ditto: Rambunctious twins Dot (sister) & Ditto (brother), who were four years old when the strip began, are now grade school-aged.
- Trixie: The Flagstons' freckled, blonde baby girl, who loves "talking" (through thought balloons) to Sunbeam, a ray of sunlight.
- Dawg: The Flagstons' large, shaggy sheepdog.
- Thirsty Thurston: The Flagstons' fat, lazy and eternally tipsy next-door neighbor.
- Irma Thurston: Thirsty's thin, weary and long-suffering wife.
- Abercrombie and Fitch: The neighborhood garbage collectors.
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